About
Past
I was born in Vietnam in 1983 and a year later my father went to work in Bulgaria, a small country in Eastern Europe. I had been traveling back and forth between Vietnam and Bulgaria for 11 years when my family moved permanently to Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria. During that time I had a chance to visit a few countries including Germany, Hungary and Russia. I came to the US in 2002 and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in visual communication in 2006.
Present
I have been working as a graphics editor at The New York Times since the beginning of 2007. I design and develop print and interactive graphics for the paper. I am also a freelance graphic designer. While not working, I spend my time reading, exploring the city and its amazing mixture of culture and food, and watching the latest movies. This blog is a venue for me to showcase my works and express my thoughts on design and the web.
Future
The future is uncertain, but exciting. I keep my mind open and prepared for what's coming. On a good day, I envision myself teaching in college, working with students and researching what I hope to become the next big thing. On the other hand, I would like to start my own design studio and be my own boss. Sometimes I just feel like traveling around the world and doing whatever I can along the way to survive. But being who I am, I will probably want to do something completely different a few years from now.
2007 - Best of Category: Interactive/Digital award in the 2007 CaGIS/ACSM Map Design Competition for Climbing Kilimanjaro
2006 - Mildred Gifford Scholarship
2006 - Documentary Multimedia Scholarship
2005 - Quincy Sharpe Mills Scholarship
2004,2005 - National Dean's List
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Dreamweaver and Flash; Corel Painter; Autodesk Maya, Pixologic ZBrush; Digidesign ProTools; Final Cut Pro
Programming and markup languages: OOP AS2 and AS3, PHP, MYSQL, XML, HTML and CSS
Content management systems: Textpattern and Drupal
Languages: fluent in English, Vietnamese and Bulgarian
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- Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence
and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantitative Informationn
by Edward R. Tufte - Beautiful Evidence by Edward R. Tufte
- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
- Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
- The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
- Editing by Design: For Designers, Art Directors, and Editors--the Classic Guide to Winning Readers by Jan White
- 1984 by George Orwell
